{"id":19279,"date":"2011-12-27T00:24:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T00:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19279"},"modified":"2013-05-27T20:37:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T20:37:53","slug":"between-cultural-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19279","title":{"rendered":"Between Cultural Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theclause.org\/collide\/category\/fall-2011-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Between Cultural Lines<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theclause.org\/collide\">Collide<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Azusa Pacific University<\/a>, Azusa, California<br \/>\nStudent Magazine<br \/>\n2011-12-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsey Barmore<\/strong>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>For some, finding their identities as biracial or multiracial individuals can bring forth challenges. Someone born with blended ethnicities may experience the frequent question of, \u201cWhat are you?\u201d Mistaken for one race and not recognized for the other may at times create an identity crisis. There\u2019s a pull to identify with one group or another, and sometimes, between multiple ethnicities simultaneously.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis is the case for Stephen Gephart, who is German, English, and Hispanic. Gephart, a sophomore applied health major says he\u2019s proud of his Hispanic heritage. He grew up in a Catholic household and was raised by a Spanish-speaking mother. Cooking tamales for Christmas with his family became a memorable time for him. Even though his Hispanic heritage was dominant in his home, Gephart still accepted his English and German nationalities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umass.edu\/communication\/people\/profile\/benjamin-bailey\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Bailey<\/a>, contributor of the book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=168\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Americans and Social Class<\/a>\u201d and an associate professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, explained that several factors could influence the acceptance of personal ethnic identity: physical features, social interactions, and communities.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cI think now there are a lot of people in the United States who, with large-scale immigration, don\u2019t fit the traditional categories so there\u2019s more flexibility now,\u201d said Bailey. \u201cAt one point, someone could say, \u2018I don\u2019t care who you are; you\u2019re black to me.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBailey explained that in the past a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one drop rule<\/a>\u201d was enforced. This rule claimed that any individual with \u201cone drop\u201d of African ancestry was to be considered fully African-American. Today, individuals cannot be fully defined by one ethnicity over another. Even the way a person acts can affect the way one is identified, according to Bailey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theclause.org\/collide\/category\/fall-2011-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Cultural Lines Collide Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California Student Magazine 2011-12-07 Chelsey Barmore, Staff Writer For some, finding their identities as biracial or multiracial individuals can bring forth challenges. Someone born with blended ethnicities may experience the frequent question of, \u201cWhat are you?\u201d Mistaken for one race and not recognized for the other may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[8902,310,8901,8903],"class_list":["post-19279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-azusa-pacific-university","tag-benjamin-bailey","tag-chelsey-barmore","tag-collide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}